Master Tung Acupuncture

Master Tung Acupuncture

Master Tung Acupuncture is an acupuncture style all its own! Experience immediate pain relief – right on the table – with Master Tung acupuncture. Using very few needles placed at distant points, Master Tung acupuncture gets results.

Pain relief happens right on the table requiring fewer treatments. Even chronic symptoms such as seasonal allergies, digestive problems, anxiety, and PMS resolve more quickly with just a few needles. Master Tung acupuncture creates excellent clinical results for a wide array of symptoms and conditions.

My Master Tung Training

I have studied Master Tung’s clinical method with two teachers: Susan Johnson, L.Ac. and Robert Chu, PhD, L.Ac., QME. Both of my Master Tung teachers received instruction from Dr. Wei-Chieh Young, a direct-line disciple of Master Tung. Lineage acupuncture was the original acupuncture prior to systematization of various acupuncture styles.

Dr. Chu has extensively researched Master Tung (Master Tong) acupuncture. As the founder of ITARA (International Tung’s Acupuncture Research Association), Dr. Chu is dedicated to preserving and imparting the complete Master Tung lineage transmission. Dr. Chu has developed effective clinical protocols utilizing Master Tung’s magic points which he teaches to acupuncturists and doctors in the United States and abroad.

About Master Tung

One of my Master Tung teachers, Robert Chu has this to say about Master Tung and Master Tung (Master Tong) acupuncture on his website: http://acuchu.com “Master Tung arrived in Taiwan after the Communists took over in China in 1949 along with Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist party and began a successful practice in Taipei, Taiwan. He was an Acupuncturist in Taiwan for 26 years, and throughout that time, he allegedly treated over 400,000 patients, with about a fourth of them treated at no charge. For these humanitarian deeds, Master Tung was decorated with an award of “Representative of Fine People and Fine Deeds” in Taiwan. As the personal acupuncturist to Taiwan President Chang Kai Shek, his reputation was so great that he was asked to visit Cambodia between 1971 and 1974 to treat Cambodian President Long Nuo, who suffered from hemiplegia due to a stroke. Master Tung was also decorated by President Chang Kai Shek with a “Certificate of Honor” in the field of Chinese Medicine, which is an amazing accomplishment because initially the Nationalist Party was not responsive to Chinese Medicine, due to the fact that Sun Yat Sen was a Western trained physician. Master Tung’s Acupuncture is truly a living treasure and storehouse of Chinese Medicine, untouched by modern TCM, and a glimpse into the family systems of Chinese Medicine as taught in previous generations. It is itself a conglomerate of classical acupuncture and pricking methods, flexibly applied, and proven clinically practical, often with quick and dramatic results. Currently many practitioners of acupuncture may use a lot of needles and needle around the local area. Not so with Master Tung’s Acupuncture.

For example, if a person has neck pain, a TCM trained acupuncturist would typically needle the neck area. But a Master Tung acupuncturist will apply a few needles to either the wrist, ankle, knee, shoulder, hip, or thigh to treat the pain. The advantage is very clear, as you can give feedback immediately to your acupuncturist upon insertion. When needles are in the neck, one has to wait until they are removed to give feedback! For the acupuncturist, the flexibility of the method is extremely attractive. Done properly, Master Tung’s acupuncture is painless, quick, efficient and requires only a few treatments if problems are acute. A full range of problems are treated, including allergies, anxiety, arthritis, asthma, back pain and sciatica, Bell’s Palsy, bronchitis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, high blood pressure, colitis, common cold and flu, constipation, diarrhea, ear pain and ringing, eczema and other skin problems, edema, frozen shoulder, GERD, headaches, IBS, impotence, insomnia, laryngitis, menstrual problems, menopause, nausea and vomiting, numbness and neuropathy, pain of all types, PMS, prostate problems, rheumatism, stress, stroke, tennis elbow, TMJ, and Trigeminal Neuralgia with just a few needles. It is almost inconceivable as to the efficacy of this form of acupuncture. In my own daily practice, I am still amazed at the immediate results I see with this system of acupuncture.

Master Tung’s Acupuncture in the USA is practiced by Young Wei-chieh of Rowland Heights, CA, Esther Su of San Jose, CA, Jim Maher of Oklahoma City, OK, and myself. I had the fortune of learning from Young Wei-chieh and Esther Su, and did extensive research in this system of acupuncture and practice it daily in Pasadena, CA. Currently, I am sharing this great system with acupuncturists and Medical Doctors nationally and internationally through my organization called ITARA – International Tung’s Acupuncture Research Association. We seek to preserve, educate, research and pass on the legacy of Master Tung’s work through seminars, private trainings, and other mediums. As students and practitioners of Master Tung’s Acupuncture, our practice is to benefit others in a practical, simple, direct, economical manner and it is hoped that the reader can seek out a Master Tung Acupuncture practitioner to experience these amazing points – the same points I use daily in my clinic with amazing results! Robert Chu, PhD, L.Ac., QME 2502 East Washington Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91104 U.S.A.”

Less Needles, More Relief with Master Tung Acupuncture

Special Note on Sciatica

Master Tung acupuncture utilizes only a few needles to get fast pain relief, allergy relief, and so much more. He has an especially effective treatment for sciatica called Ling Ku, Da Bai. Watch this video by my teacher Susan Johnson to see how two needles in the thumb web of the hand provides instant relief for sciatic symptoms, low back pain, and leg pain.